A nuclear blast is often imagined as a single instant of destruction. In reality, for many farther from the explosion, danger would unfold over hours and days as fallout traveled with wind and weather ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

A distributed intercity network of quantum sensors is placing additional constraints on the parameters that axionic dark matter could have. (Courtesy: USTC) A new of way of searching for dark-matter ...

Big money has followed the siren call of technological advances in fusion power and its promise of clean, limitless energy ...

Federal Epstein files reveal emails where he claimed to have personally lobbied Congress to defund cold fusion research by electrochemist Stanley Pons in 1989.

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

Three years ago, in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the passage of an "ultra-energetic" cosmic neutrino was observed—the ...

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg, have found a way to collectively make molecules on a flat surface rotate by exposing ...